Back at Qiwang Tower, Ci'an changed her underwear and the maid helped her express her engorged breasts. After washing, Ci'an leaned on the bed while Zhou Daoying carefully beat the Queen Mother's legs.
Ci'an whispered while half asleep, "Who do you think we can rely on now?"
"Look at what the master said, of course it is the third master... This Beiyuan was restored by the third master, and the third master is also a serious Eight Banners surname, prime minister..."
"Flatterer...isn't Third Master just a telegraph repairman? If something really happens, he has no soldiers in his hands!"
Zhou Daoying also gnashed his teeth, "Hey... that's right. Now that the military power of the imperial court has been divided among those people, the third master just wants to make some money elsewhere..."
"But... there is Xiao Letian behind Third Master!"
"Mention him again! Is he from our Qing Dynasty? The British have recognized the Chinese as an independent country, but you still expect Xiao Letian?"
Zhou Daoying stuck out his tongue, "Master is scolding me, isn't this slave in a hurry?"
Ci'an held his head with his hand and turned sideways. Zhou Daoying quickly moved to another place and knocked on his leg. He only heard the Queen Mother say quietly, "There seem to be a lot of soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, but there are not many who can fight..."
"The green battalion soldiers stationed in the local area and the soldiers all over the city have become common people. It may be okay to expect them to catch thieves locally, but if they are really sent thousands of miles away to fight, it is all waste!"
"The Hunan Army now occupies the south of the Yangtze River. Thanks to Zuo Jigao, he took away some of the elites, and Li Hongzhang took away some of the veterans... Although the remaining ones are large in scale, seven or eight years have passed since the Battle of Jiangnan... Why should Nuanfeng Has it softened their bones?"
"There are 60,000 soldiers on Guiziliu's side in Xishan. Long live the Lord himself has trained 30,000... Where else can we use the soldiers?"
Zhou Daoying continued, "To the north! Where is General Hunchun over in Heilongjiang and Ningguta? Does he have troops under him who have fought with Lao Maozi with real swords and guns?"
"What about Mongolia? The Mongolian palace on the grassland will also listen to the Queen Mother... Now our difficulty is how to mobilize these soldiers into the pass!"
Ci'an didn't pay attention, but Zhou Daoying obviously felt that the Queen Mother's body was a little stiff and her muscles were a little tight, which meant that the Queen Mother was tempted!
Zhou Daoying lowered his voice and said, "It's been more than two hundred years. Some things are coming and we can't escape them... After all, we Manchus are still north of the Great Wall!"
Ci'an suddenly opened his eyes, "You said... one day in the future, I will talk to Xiao Letian and give him a kingdom in the Ming Dynasty, and I, the Manchu people, will protect the land outside the pass..."
"Do you think he will agree?"
Zhou Daoying shrank his neck and said, "Master, this servant dare not say anything about this... But it's not that far yet, right?"
Ci'an slowly closed his eyes, "Yeah... we haven't reached that point yet, but what about the future? Look at the secret fold on the table, what Shuntian Mansion gave me..."
"The railway from Tanggu to Kaiping has been completed in the Northern Special Economic Zone... Now we are waiting for Xiao Letian to return to China to preside over the ceremony and it will be opened to traffic..."
"With more than 200 miles of railway, personnel and cargo can be delivered in two hours... As a result, after the railway was built, the Northern Special Zone reduced its troops by 800..."
"Can you understand? Do you know what this means? A thousand miles a day... A thousand miles a day..."
Ci'an's breathing gradually became evener. Zhou Daoying left the room with a look. After walking out of the Qiwang Tower, he looked at the starry sky. "When Ermao comes back, I will have to ask him for advice... This is an iron factory and a railway. It’s from the New Army again!”
"Why has it become such a mess? If you don't learn more, you may not be able to serve your master in the future! Build the railway... Build the railway. What does building the railway have to do with reducing troops? I don't understand..."
Zhou Daoying and the others may never understand these truths in their lifetime, but Mr. Qing, who is heading south, has to study it!
The British steam paddle steamer Buffalo was galloping along the coastline towards Shanghai against the wind. Qing Sanye and the first group of people from the Prime Minister's Yamen had already set off.
Behind him, Weng Tonghe, Xiao Wu Ye Yi Pei and other large troops would have at least two days before they could board the ship!
In the cabin are Cheng Huai, Shi Shan, Shi Shui... and the Mongolian guard El Su. These are the so-called core forces of the reformists gathered around Third Master Qing.
When Cixi sent people to attack Jingshan, these reformers were sent to prison and suffered a lot. Fortunately, Xiao Letian later conquered Sijiu City and they were able to get out of prison safely.
These die-hard members of the Reform and Westernization Movement took two hours to inspect the Northern Industrial Zone before boarding the ship in Tanggu. As a result, they had only been away for a year and a half, and the changes here had already made them dumbfounded.
"A 10,000-ton hydraulic forging machine! I asked foreigners that this thing is the same as a machine tool and is an industrial machine!"
"With these things, super large metal components can be forged in the special zone, including gun barrels..."
"Our Qing Dynasty needs to cheer up. Until now we can't even make a gun barrel, let alone a cannon barrel..."
"I looked at the railways in the Special Administrative Region, and they were so smooth. The steam locomotives were being debugged, and the white smoke they spewed was as high as a three-story building..."
"It takes two hours to get from the special zone to the Kaiping Coal Mine. It would take a day or two to transport it by water or land!"
"Third Master, you have to settle these matters with Master Long Live. If the court doesn't cheer up and doesn't build our factory, it will really end in the future!"
Fuqing's face was livid. He was a busy man who traveled all over the country, going to Jiangnan and Ryukyu twice a year. He was very aware of how much the outside world had changed.
And because of his special status, Fu Qing had access to some Chinese government documents. Although he could not see the CIA's top secrets, he still had access to the progress of the European battlefield and detailed follow-up reports.
The Austro-Prussian War had already left Fu Qing unable to eat or sleep. The scale and high technological content of the Franco-Prussian War now frightened him even more.
In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is said that the ignorant have no fear. But whoever opens his eyes and sees the world, there is no one who is not frightened!
Mr. Qing was still frightened when he recalled the scene of watching the 10,000-ton hydraulic forging machine at work in the special zone. The red-hot iron ingot weighed five or six thousand kilograms. Under the impact of the huge hydraulic forging machine, it was kneaded and shaped like dough.
What kind of power is this? It is so violent that it is unbelievable. Later, after careful inquiry, I realized that without such a 10,000-ton forging machine, the gun barrel would not be manufactured at all!
It turns out that the barrel needs to be forged! Poor Eight Banners dandy and even the officials in the DPRK thought the cannon was made of molten iron!
This idea is simply as bad as heaven!
"If you don't tell me, I will do it too! If we don't engage in Westernization, our Qing Dynasty will be finished sooner or later!"
With a bang, Fu Qing's fist hit the table, his tea bowl and wine glass jumped up. He opened the porthole and let in the cold wind. Outside was the waves of the Bohai Sea.
And looking around, the lights of the entire fleet on the sea have been connected into a long queue. As far as the eye can see, they are all sea-going ships going to and from the SAR.
In previous years, these fleets were used to transport some profitable commodities, such as overseas grain, weapons, treasures, and industrial products... Ship after ship was exchanged for Qing Dynasty's bristles, medicinal materials, porcelain, and tea...
However, after the Franco-Prussian War, as the national status of the Chinese was recognized and Europe relaxed some controls, Prussia has begun to export industrial aircraft to China in large quantities.
And now a quarter of the fleet that Qing Sanye saw were large sea-going ships transporting basic industrial machinery and equipment!
